Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Un amant = 🇬🇧  lover

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Un ouvrier = 🇬🇧  worker

Un boucher = 🇬🇧  butcher

Trainer = 🇬🇧 to hang around

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Rater = 🇬🇧  to miss

Un atout = 🇬🇧  an asset

Suivre les traces = 🇬🇧  to follow the tracks

Percer = 🇬🇧 to make it in something

En réalité = 🇬🇧  in reality, in fact

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Un poing =  🇬🇧 a fist

Un entraineur = 🇬🇧 a trainer, coach

Freiner = 🇬🇧 to slow 

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover
Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Conquérir = 🇬🇧 to win

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Conquérir = se rendre maître de quelque chose ( 🇬🇧 to win)

Amer / Amère = désagréable (🇬🇧 bitter)

Une idylle = une aventure amoureuse (🇬🇧 a romantic idyll)

Vouloir le beurre et l’argent du beurre = tout vouloir (🇬🇧 to want to have your cake and eat it)

Épistolaire = relatif à une correspondance écrite ( 🇬🇧 epistolary)

Un soupçon = une méfiance (🇬🇧  a suspicion)

Une amitié = lien cordial ( 🇬🇧 a friendship)

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover
Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Un(e) favori(e) = 🇬🇧 a favourite

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Maitresse = 🇬🇧  mistress

Supplier = 🇬🇧 to beg

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

S’écraser = 🇬🇧  to crash

Être en deuil = 🇬🇧  to be in mourning, grieve

Tomber dans les pommes = 🇬🇧  to faint

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

Un palmarès = 🇬🇧  a list of hits

 

Listening comprehension in French: Marcel Cerdan: French boxing champion and Édith Piaf's lover

 

I'll see you soon for new adventures, in French of course! 🇫🇷